Richard Melson

April 2005

IASPS

http://www.israeleconomy.org/

What?

The Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies (IASPS)

is a Jerusalem-based think tank with an affiliated office in Washington, D.C. Its main focus is "limited government" as Aristotle intends: "men think the constitution enslaves them but it is their salvation." The great philosopher of the Western tradition also noted that philosophy or the use of man's intellect "is his divinest part." Accordingly, IASPS pursues the limitation of Israeli socialist statism supported by US aid, by means of free market reform and a robust missile defense. The link between these economic and geostrategic policies reflects a critique of those policies which stand in opposition to limited government and affect an undermining of the elementary truths of human order. At the purely political level, IASPS policies stand in opposition to those supportive of statism and the diminution of the balance of power.

The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies
16 Bilu Street
Jerusalem, Israel 93221
Tel. 02-563-8171

or

1020 Sixteenth Street, NW, Suite 310, Washington, D.C. 20036
Tel. (202) 833-9716, fax (202) 862-4981